For all books - fiction and non-fiction.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1757367
Here's what I'm reading:
I'm going to stop reading A Dance with Dragons and the two Star Wars books for now and wrap up Empire, Incorporated and Determined while I continue on with Das Kapital.
Bonus question:
What do you PLAN to read later on?
Enjoy!
here's the 3 books im reading at the moment :)
i saw this one posted about a bunch on the bear website, im about a quarter of the way through and i can say it's already taught me a lot about myself. the author discusses at length the challenges faced by primarily autistic people, but also adhd people, and neurodiverse people in general. im going to make my girlfriend read it too >:^)
this is quite a well written biography of the ancient chinese poet li bai, we follow li through his life as he struggles to be taken seriously by the chinese elite. the author does seem to be a lib though and it comes through a couple of times.
this is i think pynchon's debut novel, im about 70% through. im not sure what to make of it: beautiful prose, harsh realities, im thoroughly engrossed and also feel as though i have no idea what's going on. the book lights up all the right parts of my brain for conspiracy shit
i recently finished anna karenina, it's my favourite book. Lenin on Tolstoy: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1910/nov/16d.htm
I read the first one and loved it.
Oh nice! What do you think of Konstantin Levin before & after he married Kitty?
I am reading The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History as a preparation for my next read, which is Perceptions of Iran: History Myths And Nationalism From Medieval Persia To The Islamic Republic by Ali Ansari. One thing that the coauthors of the Oxford handbook have specially mentioned was the sense of national identity that premodern Iranians enjoyed, but it remains a very controversial subject. So I am intrigued to know how Ansari handles that question.
They seem interesting! Have you ever learned anything about Zoroastrianism? I remember learning it was popular in the region at some point in history.
Zoroastrianism is a principle component of Iranian identity in the antiquities, especially under Achaemenid rule during which its doctrines were formalised and the church was tied to the state apparatus.
As the empire grew, Zoroastrianism was spread as far as India (I heard the biggest Zoroastrian community today is located there). Some vassal states within the Acahemenid/Sassanid spheres of influence even adopted the religion, such as Armenia before it converted to Christianity. The extent of Zoroastrianism was so deep-rooted in Iranian societies that even centuries after the Islamic conquests it remained prevalent (There wasn't forced conversion to Islam but many eventually did to avoid paying war tributes).
There was also a popular movement led by the Zoroastrian priest Mazdak who preached for an egalitarian social system and the distribution of the wealth of the nobility and priests to peasants.
Currently going through Unjust Depths, at around ch 12. Reading Losurdo's book on Liberalism, quite slow though
Losurdo has a new book that came out after his death on Bonapartism.
Nonfiction: Algebraic Geometry by Daniel Perrin
Fiction: Using Algebraic Geometry by David A. Cox
Oho
I'm reading Crime and Punishment, as for manga, a lot of thing simultaneously, i don't have any further reading on the queue tho, trying to first finish crime and punishment to practice a little my reading(i have difficulty reading, tv baby and whatnot) to see if i can read better, go to theory or at least familiarize myself with world literature with a focus in my country
Good on you for including manga.
Fic: All Quiet on the Western Front, What is to be done? (Chernyshevsky). Both decent.
Nonfic: Capital, After Virtue (weird Marxish book about morality).
Plan: Good Sugar Bad Sugar, How to Blow up a Pipeline, The Global Perspective, and more
Those look like good planned books.
Currently this its about China good so far.
Next Im gona read "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" and then "State and Revolution"
State and Revolution That's a good book, I'd better take it with me again. (Does anyone get this reference?)
Ah, you got an academic book about China; they're usually pretty good.
I plan to read that.
Sapolsky is good, might have to read that book sooner or later:
Non-fiction: Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, Euthyphro (technically historical fiction maybe?; re-reading & re-reading it), Marx in the Anthropocene, I dropped like 5-6 books after reading a few pages because I didn't vibe.
Fiction: Notes from Underground, I wanna read Brothers Karamazov but it looks way too long.
I think you misplaced The Road to Serfdom. 
Yeah, I'm eyeing it. It's actually, I had to read Popper for a Phil Sci course. And these academic reactionary types have this weird obsession with evolution. My major is Biology, and I find it interesting. They are probably considered adaptationist, and honestly it's completely different from the evolutionary biology I learned and the papers I read.
I feel that last part.
Interesting!
Can recommend both, they kind of go well together incidentally as they explore the nature of consciousness.
Obviously I'm obsessively listening and re-listening to Unmasking Autism for the book club. Besides that I'm trying to start reading "Cybernetic Revolutionaries", but I haven't found much time lately.
I also got a stash of physical books, but they're mostly in Portuguese and I haven't started going through them yet.
So much curiosity, so little time.
